Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-04
SALT LAKE CITY.
Interesting Description or the
Citadel OF Mormonispn.
How the City which Brigham Young was
Inspired to Build has Grown.

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my act, shall have overthrow the Nor
mon hierarchy, and after Mormonism
shall have been forgotten, the Mormon
capital will pcrpctuate the name Of
Brigham Young, and be proof of his
great qualities as pioneer and the
builder Of city. Indeed, it was by
building Salt Lake City that he gave
the Mormon Church both the inspiration
and its machinery for resisting ciyiIiza-
ton as stubbornly as it has. The City
Of the Saints has history that has been
written md read in every civilized
tongue; it attained commercial impor-
lance even before its founder died, and
it is one Of the most beautiful of all
modernly built cities. For its romance
(and its founding was decidedly ro-
mantle, unless the Mormon point Of view
be taken, and it be called the result Of
an inspiration), for its commerce, and
for the selection Of so fine
site and for its laying cut,
we arc indebted to Brigham Young.
When the band of Saints were driven
FROM Missouri they began their long
march westward without definite pur-
pose. But when in their journey across
the great American desert their leader
came to the valley Of the Great Salt
Lake, which is hemmel in on every side
but one by high mountain ranges, he re-
cognized in the alkali plain the proper
site for a great city. He was inspired"
to build it, and he went about it with
vigor and comprehension of the art of
building a city which go far toward
justifying his claim to a superhuman
suggestion. Having irrigated the land
and proved its fertility, he laid cut the
town precisely as it has been built. On a
commanding position he set the Taber-
nacle with its oval roof. Near BY was the
Tithing-house, and nearer still the walls
Of the beautiful Tempe have since been
reared on the site selected by him. The
"Beehive," VIII CHI is the, row of abode
houses where his numerous family re-
sided, is but one block away. And
round about all this he built wall, lest
Incidence should give time for discomfort,
and in order to carry out the parallel to
Biblical town building.
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The streets were made wide, SO that
the hoy city should not lack attractive
ness, and down every street a mountain
stream was turned, which constituted an
idea surface system of waterworks and
drainage. AZ the bishops and apos-
ties became thrifty and thrift is the
prime virtue of the s.Saintsn-they
erected fine adobe residences, and later
wooden ones of pretentions to architec-
tural beauty on the hillsides at the base
of the mountains. Through the yard Of
every one mountain stream runs. which
makes its way into surface sewer.
thence into the Jordan river, and thence
nto.thc great Salt Lake itself. Within
sight OF perpetual snow, the flower
yards Of the Saints bloom early in spring,
and keep their freshness till the late
coming frost in. this rsinless atmosphere.
The air is as dry and wholesome as the
air of Colorado, and nature does its own
plumbing. Payements have been laid
now, Of course, and magnificent
drives lead out of the CITY.
Residences Of the rich have